Radeon R9 290X Against GeForce GTX TITAN

Yesterday at two Asian sources some benchmarks popped up on the Radeon R9 290X versus GeForce GTX TITAN. The content originates from PCOnline.com.cn. The benchmarks show extremely interesting stuff but do need to be taken with a grain of salt in terms of validity and perhaps early clocked samples.

The R9 290X performs seriously well in 3DMark: FireStrike as well as Metro: Last Light in others the perf seems to be in-between a GTX 780 and Titan. If all this is correct, not bad huh ? Have a peek:

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#4679316 Posted on: 10/20/2013 09:13 PM
just seen those temps and the overclocking over on video we all know who, so 94 was just furmark as expected.

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#4679330 Posted on: 10/20/2013 09:39 PM
Think I'm going to ban myself from looking at these threads, its too painful - as people say, 4k for me is nothing to go by - desperately awaiting the NDA to drop! - Just for some reading material!

Interested to see how CFX works out, seem's a little too toasty

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#4679334 Posted on: 10/20/2013 09:44 PM
4k or not, that is impressive. For those who downsample, or run 1440p/1600p and a fair bit of AA, these 4k benches tell quite a lot about how the 290x will perform. I'm assuming the drivers are sucky for the 290x atm too.

Still the 290x gets 31.13% performance increase over the gtx 780 on average according to that. That's not bad.cherry picked benchmarks against a 780 which is gimped by 3gb of vram at that resolution. I am more interested in 1080 and 1440 myself. and will wait for real reviews.

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#4679342 Posted on: 10/20/2013 10:00 PM
Some of those games get nowhere near gtx 780's 3gb vram usage limit even at 4k. in fact, most of these games will stay well below 3gb vram usage, even with 4xmsaa they only rarely hit over 3gb vram usage and even then it's not by much, not enough to gimp the 780. http://forums.aria.co.uk/showthread.php/127794-How-much-VRAM-do-you-need

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#4679365 Posted on: 10/20/2013 10:33 PM

cherry picked benchmarks against a 780 which is gimped by 3gb of vram at that resolution. I am more interested in 1080 and 1440 myself. and will wait for real reviews.

It's not cherry picking when you spend $600-$1000 on a GPU you are more likely to be using a multi-monitor setup, or as others have said, down-sampling.

Also, the lower the resolution the less GPU bound most games are and more CPU bound, muddying the waters. That's why in some 1080p games, more expensive cards don't perform near their price premium compared to cheaper cards, but when you crank up the resolution, the difference becomes apparent.

Yes let's show that we have a 512bit memory bus.... Pointless bench show the same in 1080, 1200, 1440 and 1600.

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#4679425 Posted on: 10/21/2013 12:09 AM
It's not cherry picking when you spend $600-$1000 on a GPU you are more likely to be using a multi-monitor setup, or as others have said, down-sampling.

Also, the lower the resolution the less GPU bound most games are and more CPU bound, muddying the waters. That's why in some 1080p games, more expensive cards don't perform near their price premium compared to cheaper cards, but when you crank up the resolution, the difference becomes apparent.well then, take vram out of the equation and test with the titan instead of the 780? after all the titan is nvidias top end card as the 290x is amd top end card. or lets see some benches with the 780 and 290x at resolutions the vast majority of people play?

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#4679461 Posted on: 10/21/2013 01:09 AM
It's not cherry picking when you spend $600-$1000 on a GPU you are more likely to be using a multi-monitor setup, or as others have said, down-sampling.

Also, the lower the resolution the less GPU bound most games are and more CPU bound, muddying the waters. That's why in some 1080p games, more expensive cards don't perform near their price premium compared to cheaper cards, but when you crank up the resolution, the difference becomes apparent.

You only say that because you are using a single 6970. I've been there. Higher end GPU's do improve 1080p gameplay. They guarantee 60fps at good/great IQ settings. Once you experience it you will know. Until then you think you know. (I had crossfire 6950's at one time look where I am now, one 670 was a better experience.)

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#4679473 Posted on: 10/21/2013 01:44 AM
Guys was this posted already? I haven't seen it anywhere...

You only say that because you are using a single 6970. I've been there. Higher end GPU's do improve 1080p gameplay. They guarantee 60fps at good/great IQ settings. Once you experience it you will know. Until then you think you know. (I had crossfire 6950's at one time look where I am now, one 670 was a better experience.)

a titan at 1080 will spank a single 680/770 at 1080. you need to add a second 680/770 to match or beat a titan at 1080.

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#4679636 Posted on: 10/21/2013 10:30 AM

well then, take vram out of the equation and test with the titan instead of the 780? after all the titan is nvidias top end card as the 290x is amd top end card. or lets see some benches with the 780 and 290x at resolutions the vast majority of people play?

We'll see those soon enough. Let's not be writing the 290x off. Anyway, titan is not 30% faster then the 780 so even if they ran the 290x against a titan, it would still come out on top at that res.